The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-26
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For the intet!igenttr. VI
TIE BURNING RIVER.
ny III Maxwell,
IT'S strange And beautiful the Once Gong
| Which hinkelh how their ancient kingdom fell.
The dream Of legends and the mystic thfong
VI fantasies the tfiih OF memory swell,
Ard no who Wa " TO LIST swept along,
Entinneed an1 Il tapt,i,ed rs by m,ginsrel;
The annals OF tho ktotlcd long ago.
Allow mo this and will ask no more,
| Indulge an idle fancy for awhile,
And TIT believe a page o. heathCn lore I5.E
| Whose ttrangtnsss Inns II power 10 beguile. IA
It's but "a superstition from the yCre- .
| bIoktn column from MI ancient pilo
OF Omec maS?nry--a shattered wall
| Hhah fell, and In It's ruia hurled all.
In years untold when ilnt tho,iie Of tme
w, washing gently GU the inr,h'st Sttand 10
VI infant I'll. aud waves y ith playful chime
krni music lnwIrd toward tho ialllug land:
ana sunlight shonc along tho chang elCsI cline,
yer latns mt reached aiar hetsns and bland.
|
Warm with the beauty heamlug from above =
iathat ~ Day from ttrals OF carquinez.- t.
Hut ere tho GOlden tate was burnt mar
| 10 eaStwaid where the south Wind balmy br,nth
NJ SamS tolily. Stretched MI up,and wIdc and far.
There loonsu not then thosa pinnaclCS vi death,
kawean, Lyell. whitney, Shasta, nor
That range Of snowy peaks and granite hills W
| Which now tho east horizons vista ILLS.
From out tho north. thousand miles away,
on ss ths snsd n"a ISsuttu md deep
Aeloss the water CLEANED, or sank to sleep
beneath INC yerdailt banks where shadows lay
| Upon ne tide, forever more to keep
4 Trembling CULVER there, and eyerniofe
| 10 rest IN nuiic waited from the shore,
For strains oil mpturols cadence eycrrose
From out the shadows, miugiIpy with Tho song
| OF myriad bids, with plnmnge Ike lie SHOWS
thtong ee'
Acres The The Alpine Inc summit, and disclose
All colofs OF the Garth And borne along
Was all that music on the mOrlldccp air,
And upward rose to heaven like u player.
Eor.was this ,all. The vines from branches high
lung peudent; and the zephyrs Ger them played
SOFT hirs Ike harps !E9ltau. passing by
From shadow unto shadow. bhado 10 shade,
And hatnony OF soitnes, like Sigh
VI love- each qnaver o. the wind otcycd,
And rose anu fell, now hear, and far away,
| And near again with low aud plalntve 10y.
'Twa.llke vision from the sp,,ltland
Where what Is real scarcely stcneth so:
Wheic realms Utopan rest OH every baud,
Ana dreams and vlStas ever como aud 20
On deep palsaloas dowH from ctitur's strand
whose brightness anu whose deepuCss bende!h
And yearnugs In their vague and weary quest
Are calmed Il! last aud lulica Into resi-.
In that fair country dwclt the Once race
To whom the blight Of sin was ali unknown.
WhAtc'ct WAS lOvelieSt iu every rrace
They claimed and held In giadness as their own,
lh lr, tbat land IN every quiet place.
The valleys waved with flowers; tho Wales were
green:
The azure heavens bent above the sceu
Beyond the river Oh the further side
"A mountain rose OF stone IN white as snow:
lWn st'sated win ptitest gold III vclns tia, WED
=. Win all the FL Doti1o's long ago.
From base 10 summit, branchiug TT and wide,
The utirufSted strata abUpe with dn1zlipg gIow
against the .cnak.wh!ie ellis whcreOn the l,eht
VI noohuhy's sun poured beautiful and bright,
There was nj cdict In that ancient land
The last and only ediet ever tn afc:
That none should cross the river TO the strand
Ihat lay beyond, aneir the mountain fair.
Anu tneEi who dhohcyed no mortal hand
Cond rescue from the ruin aud despair
which would o'efw holm NJ by a prison blight
n'owh from Tue neither realms Of endless night.
For ages and for ages all obeyed,
=, Nor yeatned 10 cross the river: but atlast
TWO sat together III the linden shade
ana toward the mount OF gold their eyes they
And on that seltsame day bark they made.
ana quickly Der the cry.tIl tide they past,
! Lurtd Onward byhstrauge, mys,ctlou; dream
Across 'hc "FVes % :EAt forbidden stream.
Thu bsrk h.l PISSED but -,iI way DER the tide,
SMh. hksi fash TIT fise< was changed to
A r9ilIas mass Of flames from sideto sid,
WITH pillows mounting higher aud higher and
higher. eNe' "AN
The Grey IVY VIII cry o. torment sank aud died.
Ike buuuh9 m0lirnetS OH Il funeral pyre
and waves closed over. Al! was sill and hush,.d
savecatAshcss of fire that his.cd and rushed.
The mount Of gold, beyond the further shore,
Now mo!tenswept adOrn the burning stream
Aud mingled with the waves It's shining on
I'LL altogether rs one de,uge seem
Aud onward sweep with Kissing and with roar
And overflow the plains witt! g0re and CLEAN.
| TIL seas Of sn.sng lire on every hand
] Have deluyed all the valleys oil the land
This was the Once Kingdom's overthrow,
The Tribes had persisted, or had rushed In flight,
Flying amazed from ruin, death aud woe,
And !elt their country sce,h!uE In It's blight
.! ARE. and He'd TO p(aiHs OF Mexico
| That stretched altar beyond the southern nfeht.
| And Oh the upland east from CArQulnez
All lovcliuess was burnt aud scared to death.
stupepdons change h,l followed In the wake
OF the destroying tire, and powed the plaIus
/ III canGns aud nbyS4s; and the Quake
| VI earth betrayed It's anguish mud its pains
| Deep valleys sank, aud many ilesy lake,
] AMI burning sactCrS left their red mo raircs
Leagues out hsnIust the north In flaming ttiIts.
stIcwn random iAs between the yayuluv riffs
Where late had stood the mount OF gold aroSe
| range Ct granite peaks In oask array,
Uplifting TO the sky lheir crowns Of SHOWS.
Aud bending northward, southwark far away,
| NO lullg1E n0* the burning river lows:
lthn,h GrGwn cold-n dead basAltIc gray
~ plain OF wnrping rocks with many sam
| TO marx he Fittings Of Tbs lava stream,
Long ages now have pas. and byouel, their change
| Upon the Landscape: and NOW rises high
| AGAIN.! the cas- eirtInh Snowy Range
=, MN euminiis bathing IL The simmer sky
| The Once story Is Il WIND, and stshllgc
And beautiful conCeit that passes by
| MsghetAlilg wholly MSS. he mol deceived:
A thing may YET be true. though unbelcyrd.
Pass thou TO cas-. and north from suisun
| and cross the foothills squirting 10 The west
And thou SHAH lind along the ridges StIcwu
lhc hhlu, F1.cHilis rock. the crowning crtS!
VI nrom0a, Oii.h now; and many II dune
OllocSs In mighty drifts With lhlckcs drcst
| All thiS debris from out that ancient tide
Was stlewn along the landscape lar and wide.
Deep In the dritcd Garth thou caas, behold
| The wealth Of ancient ddys, where, torn away.
| Fhe golden mount has LEFT 1t, sands Of god
Stfcwti Gown along The soHth. where rugged lay
| The FoCkS nutiltto,is with wealth untold,
To nsl until the rush Of modcrn day
shDn.d tefc into the depths, and tuning Der
Tee salids, should NId the treasures Of y0:e
| Yea, more Thou yet cans: trace the mighty bed
| oi that yhst river, ihihvas deep and more
! Inc channel'balkS Rtt illcd with rubbish deep,
| And one might sec them not, though passing
| DER
| thousand miles to northward WAS It's head:
It cmpI!td toward the Nicaragua shore,
| Strrn!l sublime anu Erand la OIdrn wears,
| but now III ruined ruui alone hppeais
Yet then cnMSt plainly trace thecou,sc Of lrc
| With delugtd Der the channels Of the tide;
| That tweiled with molten mountains higher md
higher.